Homemade Spam

There are nearly two hundred distinct languages in the Philippines, and most folks speak more than one and sometimes five or more—which may explain in part why we love to play with words and mint new ones, whether through repetition (see Bola-Bola), mash-ups (see Breakfast and Silogs), or tadbalik, rearranging syllables and letters (baliktad means “reverse”), a legacy of anti-colonial fighters from the Philippine Revolut